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Subject: Re: [JOHNSTON-DNA] Johnston family - the Wee Three
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 1:29:47 -0400


Hey,

Thats pretty interesting. they furthest I know back is John Johnston married a Phoebe Jane Carlisle. John is my grt grt grt grandfather..

Terry M Johnston
---- "Cliff. Johnston" <> wrote:
> Terry,
>
> I just took a look at my Y-DNA cousins. We do have a Virgil and a George.
> They are a little bit more removed from me than some of the others. We all
> go back to Herbert Johnston of Nese, Gleneybank & Poldean and his son Symon.
> Symon was the only productive son that Herbert had (in the early 1500's).
> The genetic divergence among us "modern" descendants can probably be
> accounted for in large part by the fact that Symon had 4 productive sons,
> each of which may have developed his own Y-DNA "signature" line.
>
> Cliff. Johnston
> "May the best you've ever seen,
> Be the worst you'll ever see;"
> from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry M. Johnston" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [JOHNSTON-DNA] Johnston family - the Wee Three
>
>
> > Hello Cliff
> >
> > Just wanted to add my two cents, allthough I have no idea if we are
> > related.
> > My name is Terry Johnston, I am also tall with red hair. 6'7 to be exact..
> > My father who shares a name with you is 6'5 he is David Clifford Johnston,
> > and my brother David also with red hair is 6'6. Our grandfather was also
> > tall at 6'7 and had red hair, he was George Virgil Johnston and his father
> > was Floyd Clifford Johnston and his father was George Vinson Johnston and
> > his father was John Johnston, if you have any info on this line or if it
> > is
> > connected with your line please let me know, thanks...
> >
> >
> > Terry M Johnston
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:13 PM
> > Subject: [JOHNSTON-DNA] Johnston family - the Wee Three
> >
> >
> >> Greetings from Sunny Texas,
> >>
> >> Y-DNA test results have come back confirming the suspected relationship
> >> of
> >> 3 Johnston brothers: Francis "Frank" (b. 1805), Robert "Red Robin" (b.
> >> 1808) and Archibald "Archie" (b. 1815), all born in Ireland. I call them
> >> the "Wee Three" with affection as all were taller than average with my
> >> gggrandfather, Red Robin, coming in at 6'-5" (and red hair).
> >>
> >> According to oral family history their father may have been born in
> >> Scotland. We do not know his name. According to old and ancient
> >> Johnston/e family genealogy provided by a newfound cousin to whom we were
> >> linked by the Y-DNA tests we belong to the Johnstons in Poldean and some
> >> of our ancestors were members of the Old Gang of Wamphray (Danish Viking
> >> ancestry - Poldean is a 2,000 acre holding which left the family in 1742.
> >> It is some 4-5 miles south of Moffatt, Scotland). Our Johnston/e family
> >> left Ireland in the mid-1820's. One or more died on the crossing to
> >> Upper
> >> Canada, possibly including their father. A married sister stayed behind
> >> in Ireland with her husband. The 3 surviving brothers settled near what
> >> is now Pendleton, Ontario, Canada. They were very close to other
> >> families
> >> in the Pendleton area, such as Anderson, Wylie and Derby who came from
> >> the
> >> Magherafeldt area in Co. Derry, and it is suspected that they too may
> >> have
> >> come from the same locale.
> >>
> >> 2 of my Dad's aunts visited Ireland to find kin in the 1920's. None were
> >> found living. One aunt kept a detailed journal which included the
> >> tombstone inscriptions of our kin - they did find where they were buried
> >> and visited their graves. Unfortunately today no one knows where the
> >> journal is or where in Ireland the sisters visited.
> >>
> >> I have been told that in Ireland the given name "Francis" was considered
> >> to be a Roman Catholic name and as such not in common use among
> >> Protestant
> >> Johnston/e families. Our ancestors were Presbyterian/Methodist. It is
> >> possible that the father of the Wee Three married a Roman Catholic woman.
> >> We do not know, but interestingly a couple of other Y-DNA cousins in the
> >> States with whom we have not been able to make a paper connection yet
> >> also
> >> have the name "Francis" used by their Protestant Irish ancestors.
> >>
> >> If anyone has any information on our Wee Three or recognizes something
> >> about them from their research I'd appreciate hearing from you. I've
> >> been
> >> beating my head against those old Irish bricks for too long (since
> >> 1979) -
> >> something has to give, and I hope that it isn't me... ;-)
> >>
> >> Here is a link to some photographs of our ancestors, including my
> >> gggrandfather & gggrandmother:
> >>
> >> http://www.pbase.com/cjmax/johnston_family_album&page=all
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Cliff. Johnston
> >> "May the best you've ever seen,
> >> Be the worst you'll ever see;"
> >> from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
> >>
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